Daft Punk was supposed to play on the Colbert Report yesterday, but due to a conflict with MTV (spoiler alert: they’re “surprise guests” at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards) they were contractually cockblocked from playing his show. Of course that won’t stop the juggernaut that is Stephen Colbert, so he took to the streets […]

Nick Gentry, a Central Saint Martin’s graduate and apparent stranger to canvas stretching, prefers to paint portraits on a canvas constructed with floppy disks. He strategically incorporates these obsolete tech properties into his subjects’ features creating a file cabinet effect. Gentry places an emphasis on recycling and reusing personal objects, acquiring dead technologies through a […]

Swiss watch maker TAG Heuer introduces its Carrera Mikrograph 1/100th — completely designed, patented, developed and manufactured by the folks at TAG. What sets the highly technical timepiece apart is a central hand that can measure and display time with 100th of a second precision. Two limited editions of the Mikrograph were launched by TAG Heuer […]

Do you like wine? As in, a lot? If you fancy yourself a oenologist or simply champion a healthy collection of wine, you may enjoy having the Esigo 2 Box Wine Rack nearby. The steel rack can be mounted against a wall or used as a central room display unit, and can hold up to […]

Remember when we sent Madman Mundt out to a super secret mission in Nicaragua? Well its finally time to announce the objective behind said mission: it was to ride along with Austrian downhill mountain biker Max Stöckl as he attempted to break the World Speed Record for a mountain bike on soil —as opposed to snow, […]

Six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 conservation priority sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas are set to be decimated, all in the name of energy. That amounts to roughly 6,000 hectares or 60 square kilometers of land. That’s bigger than the Vatican City, Monaco and Bermuda combined. The Chileans have fought against […]

A company called Scottish Spirits is releasing Scotch In a Can, a new product being marketed heavily in the Caribbean and southernmost Central America. This is supposedly the first time a straight spirit has been sold in a can, and is being investigated by the Scottish Whisky Association who question whether the product is real […]

Monstrously over-rated environmental installation artists Christo and Jeanne Claude have opted to collect their art in a massive Taschen coffee table book, which is fairly de rigueur for artists of their stature. What is not so standard, however, is the $50,000 pricetag they’re throwing on it. Seriously, $50K for a book. Obviously, the mindset that […]